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Buyer’s Guide to the Best, High-Quality Supplements for You and Your Family
When it comes to you and your family, you want only the best. Unfortunately, you cannot trust all vitamin supplements to be high quality. Four out of five herbal supplements tested at Wal-Mart, Target, Walgreens, and GNC contained none of the medicinal herb that was...
10 Tips to Purify Your Air and Water During Pregnancy: Give Your Baby the Best Possible Start
Americans spend nearly 90 percent of their time indoors, and the air inside your home can be 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air. Even more than the air we breathe, the water we drink can carry chemicals or metals that can harm us. In one study, tap water for 15...
Future Tech Podcast with Richard Jacobs and Cass Nelson-Dooley
My Future Tech Podcast Interview just went live! Check it out: Listen to "Helping Healing – Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S., Owner and CEO of Health First Consulting, LLC – The Microbiome, Plant Diversity, and Natural Pat" on Spreaker. Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S., owner and CEO...
Dr. Mark Burhenne’s “The Oral Microbiome & Its Impact on Every Other System in the Body”
In this blog, Dr. Burhenne does an excellent job explaining why your whole body health depends on your oral microbiome! And check out his awesome infographic on how to boost oral microbiome health. Read more here...The Oral Microbiome & Its Impact on Every Other...
Things to Avoid When Pregnant: How to Make a Non-Toxic Baby in a Toxic World
I was just a few weeks pregnant when I got an assignment to write a medical paper on detoxification. I found myself pounding away at the keyboard about the 700 new chemicals introduced into the American market each year. I wrote that 200 chemicals were found in the...
Reverse Diabetes with Smart Carbs
Diabetes is a timely topic for me, as my husband was diagnosed with diabetes last summer and my closest childhood friend developed gestational diabetes earlier this year. What is the world coming to? Indeed, our country is having an epidemic of high blood sugar, to...
How the Bacteria in Your Mouth Could Save Your Brain
Updated July 27, 2021 The evidence for a microbial origin of Alzheimer’s disease is stacking up, particularly since the Alzheimer’s biomarker beta-amyloid was recognized as an antimicrobial peptide1 and a common oral pathogen was described as a “central driver of...
Released on Amazon today! Heal Your Oral Microbiome.
Until now, the gut microbiome has gotten the lion’s share of the headlines. But the oral microbiome is equally impressive. Amazingly, the oral microbiome influences health or disease in many other systems of the body, not just the gut. The oral microbiome is the next...
Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a researcher, author, educator, and laboratory consultant. She studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama as a Fulbright Scholar and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. Early on, she studied ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and drug discovery at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc. She joined innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory as a medical education consultant helping clinicians use integrative and functional laboratory results in clinical practice. She owns Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is an oral microbiome expert and author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome. She was a contributing author in Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about the oral microbiome, natural medicine, nutrition, laboratory testing, obesity, and osteoporosis.
